Flat-iron.



PAT'ENTED SEPT. 6, 1904. H. GOLDBERG.

PLAT IRON. V APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, 1902.

' NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

HARRIS GOLDBERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FLAT-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,311, dated September 6, 1904. Application filed July 31,19Q2{ erial No. 117,817. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRIS GOLDBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

- in the county of Cook. and State of Illinois,

' operator to press the goods or that portion of the garment which is covered by buttons or other overlapping material secured to the garment; and it consists of an iron having a horizontally-projecting flange extending outward.

. from the iron some distance and the bottom of the flange being on the same plane with the bottom of the iron and preferably integral 5 therewith and the top of the flange parallel with the bottom of the flange.

In the drawings forminga part of this specification, and in which the same reference characters refer to identical parts-in the diflerent views, Figure 1 is a perspective of a flat-iron embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmental plan View. Fig.3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. v

A is the body of the flat-iron, having the ordinary. handle B and the taperingfront end G. Projecting horizontally from the bottom of the body A is a flange D, which, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, is designed to pass underneath the overlapping portion of the buttons E on the garment F to be pressed. It is obviousthat this flange D, being thin enough to pass underneath the buttons, can be used to press the garment under any portion of the same forming part thereof and overlapping a portion of the goods, as a lapel on the vest, which is often secured to the face of the vest by being stitched in one or two places.

While I have shown the flange D extending out on a majority of the sides of the iron A, I may. omit it on one of the sides altogether, or I may have the flange D only on one side of the tapering front end 0. I have shown the flange D as being integral with the body A of the iron; but it may be made separate and secured to the body A by any ordinary means.

I am aware that flat-irons having slightlysloping sides have been used, and I do not claim such" a construction; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a flat-iron provided with a handle, a V- shaped end and two parallel sides the combination of a horizontally-extending flange, the

lower pressing-face of said flange being flush with the bottom of the iron, the lower and upper pressing-surfaces of said flange being parallel and the flange increasing in width from the apex of the V-shaped end to the parallel sides as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. HARRIS GOLDBERG. 

